{"id":169,"date":"2008-02-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-23T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-02-20T14:33:01","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T19:33:01","slug":"a-very-strange-thing-happened-%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/2008\/02\/23\/a-very-strange-thing-happened-%e2%80%a6\/","title":{"rendered":"A very strange thing happened \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartImportPhoto--><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/files\/2008\/02\/298_21214.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-104\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;margin-bottom: 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/files\/2008\/02\/298_21214.jpg\" alt=\"My favorite female soccer player in action\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><!--EndImportPhoto--><\/p>\n<p>A wild 7-4 English Premier League soccer match last fall has brought to light an interesting phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>It seems Reading &ndash; on the 4 end of the 7-4 &ndash; has an odd effect on people.<\/p>\n<p>After the 11th goal was scored, Sky Sports reporter Ian Darke, reporting from the game, said, &quot;I&#8217;m running out of fingers.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>How many fingers does he have?<\/p>\n<p>After the game, a BBC commentator commentated: &quot;The fans certainly didn&#8217;t expect to see 10 goals scored.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Ummm &hellip; 7 plus 4 equals &hellip;?<\/p>\n<p>Blame it on the wild game if you want. But earlier in 2007, Reading defender Michael Duberry had this to say about his performance against Liverpool superstar forward Frenando Torres:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;At the end of the day, he scored three goals. Other than that, I kept him pretty quiet.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Bear in mind that any time you score two goals in a soccer game, you&rsquo;re having a big day.<\/p>\n<p>And during a half, commenting on radio during a different Reading game, Martin Keown said, &quot;If we talk about the game for those people who didn&#8217;t see the first half &#8230;&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Well, that&rsquo;d be the entire radio audience, wouldn&rsquo;t it?<\/p>\n<p>If you need further proof, consider this: I just thought this was amusing, and I&rsquo;m not going to stretch to make some missions-related illustration.<\/p>\n<p>Weird, huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or rather, strange things keep happening at Reading Football Club matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}